Author: Noura Maheeb
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524678961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Three sisters seek to run away from misfortunes and ask an old witch, Miss Fort, to help them. Their quest takes them on a long journey, and on that journey of love and loss, they discover that there are bigger problems in life than the problems the world has set upon themproblems that come from within themselves rather than from the world outside.
Shaker Design
Author: June Sprigg
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393305449
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Having lived and worked with surviving Shakers of Maine and New Hampshire, June Sprigg has drawn objects from forty collections to celebrate the Shaker tradition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393305449
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Having lived and worked with surviving Shakers of Maine and New Hampshire, June Sprigg has drawn objects from forty collections to celebrate the Shaker tradition.
The Hindustan Review
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
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Nirmala
Author: Munshi Premchand
Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9350830698
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
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Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9350830698
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
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The Last Sister
Author: Courtney McKinney-Whitaker
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611174317
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Set during the Anglo-Cherokee War (1758–1761), The Last Sister traces a young woman's journey through grief, vengeance, guilt, and love in the unpredictable world of the early American frontier. After a band of fellow settlers fakes a Cherokee raid to conceal the murder of her family, seventeen-year-old Catriona "Catie" Blair embarks on a quest to report the crime and bring the murderers to justice, while desperately seeking to regain her own sense of safety. This journey leads Catie across rural South Carolina and through Cherokee territory—where she encounters wild animals, physical injury, privation, British and Cherokee leaders, and an unexpected romance with a young lieutenant from a Scottish Highland regiment—on her path to a new life as she strives to overcome personal tragedy. The Anglo-Cherokee War erupted out of tensions between British American settlers and the Cherokee peoples, who had been allies during the early years of the French and Indian War. In 1759 South Carolina governor William Henry Lyttelton declared war on the Cherokee nation partly in retaliation for what he perceived as unprovoked attacks on backcountry settlements. Catie's story challenges many common notions about early America. It also presents the Cherokee as a sovereign and powerful nation whose alliance was important to Britain and addresses the complex issues of race, class, and ethnicity that united and divided the British, the Cherokee, the Scottish highlanders, and the Scottish lowlanders, while it incorporates issues of power that led to increased violence toward women on the early American frontier.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611174317
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Set during the Anglo-Cherokee War (1758–1761), The Last Sister traces a young woman's journey through grief, vengeance, guilt, and love in the unpredictable world of the early American frontier. After a band of fellow settlers fakes a Cherokee raid to conceal the murder of her family, seventeen-year-old Catriona "Catie" Blair embarks on a quest to report the crime and bring the murderers to justice, while desperately seeking to regain her own sense of safety. This journey leads Catie across rural South Carolina and through Cherokee territory—where she encounters wild animals, physical injury, privation, British and Cherokee leaders, and an unexpected romance with a young lieutenant from a Scottish Highland regiment—on her path to a new life as she strives to overcome personal tragedy. The Anglo-Cherokee War erupted out of tensions between British American settlers and the Cherokee peoples, who had been allies during the early years of the French and Indian War. In 1759 South Carolina governor William Henry Lyttelton declared war on the Cherokee nation partly in retaliation for what he perceived as unprovoked attacks on backcountry settlements. Catie's story challenges many common notions about early America. It also presents the Cherokee as a sovereign and powerful nation whose alliance was important to Britain and addresses the complex issues of race, class, and ethnicity that united and divided the British, the Cherokee, the Scottish highlanders, and the Scottish lowlanders, while it incorporates issues of power that led to increased violence toward women on the early American frontier.
Arthur's Home Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 1226
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Languages : en
Pages : 1226
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Overshot
Author: Susan Falls
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820357723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles. Created on four-harness looms, coverlets made in the nineteenth-century American South typically featured colored wool and cotton threads woven into striking geometric patterns. Although they are not as well known as other textiles and domestic objects, “overshot” coverlets were, and continue to be, significant examples of material culture that require tremendous skill and creativity to produce. They also express currents of conformity and dissent. In addition to being pleasing to the eye and hand, “overshot” coverlets have advanced a variety of social and political ends. At times exhibited in slave quarters along the seaboard in Georgia and South Carolina in association with plantation properties, they also appear in piedmont areas attached to the antebellum yeomanry, in the context of nationalist craft revivals, and in white-box contemporary art. With Overshot, Susan Falls and Jessica R. Smith analyze what we can learn by examining the exhibition and interpretation of these materials within American public history. By showing how geometric overshot coverlets can be understood in relationship to the global economy and within politicized cultural movements, Falls and Smith demonstrate how these erstwhile domestic, utilitarian objects explode the art/craft dichotomy, belong to a rich narrative of historical art forms, and tell us far more about American culture today than simply representing a nostalgic past, particularly with regard to ideas about race, class, nationalism, women’s labor, and the separation of private versus public spaces.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820357723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles. Created on four-harness looms, coverlets made in the nineteenth-century American South typically featured colored wool and cotton threads woven into striking geometric patterns. Although they are not as well known as other textiles and domestic objects, “overshot” coverlets were, and continue to be, significant examples of material culture that require tremendous skill and creativity to produce. They also express currents of conformity and dissent. In addition to being pleasing to the eye and hand, “overshot” coverlets have advanced a variety of social and political ends. At times exhibited in slave quarters along the seaboard in Georgia and South Carolina in association with plantation properties, they also appear in piedmont areas attached to the antebellum yeomanry, in the context of nationalist craft revivals, and in white-box contemporary art. With Overshot, Susan Falls and Jessica R. Smith analyze what we can learn by examining the exhibition and interpretation of these materials within American public history. By showing how geometric overshot coverlets can be understood in relationship to the global economy and within politicized cultural movements, Falls and Smith demonstrate how these erstwhile domestic, utilitarian objects explode the art/craft dichotomy, belong to a rich narrative of historical art forms, and tell us far more about American culture today than simply representing a nostalgic past, particularly with regard to ideas about race, class, nationalism, women’s labor, and the separation of private versus public spaces.
The Sisters That Met Misfortune
Author: Noura Maheeb
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524678961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Three sisters seek to run away from misfortunes and ask an old witch, Miss Fort, to help them. Their quest takes them on a long journey, and on that journey of love and loss, they discover that there are bigger problems in life than the problems the world has set upon themproblems that come from within themselves rather than from the world outside.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524678961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Three sisters seek to run away from misfortunes and ask an old witch, Miss Fort, to help them. Their quest takes them on a long journey, and on that journey of love and loss, they discover that there are bigger problems in life than the problems the world has set upon themproblems that come from within themselves rather than from the world outside.
The Theosophist
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Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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The United States Catalog
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2188
Book Description
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2188
Book Description
Spinning-wheel Stories
Author: Louisa May Alcott
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Collects twelve stories told by snow-bound members of an extended family gathered in their old homestead for the Christmas holidays.
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Collects twelve stories told by snow-bound members of an extended family gathered in their old homestead for the Christmas holidays.